Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a bill designed to strengthen Florida's investor protection law. ...more

July 1, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist says he will probably sign a bill environmentalists and growth management advocacy groups say will lead to more sprawl. ...more

May 21, 2009

Leto football players will honored at a signing ceremony on Friday. Ken McAllister and Adolfo Navarro will both sign with Erie Community College. McAllister, a starting defensive end whose brother Demonte signed with FSU, was second on the team with three sacks. He also had 42 tackles last season. Navarro was the Falcons second-leading receiver with 12 receptions for 199 yards and 1 touchdown. ...more

April 15, 2009

About 3.8 million uninsured Floridians can start applying for low-cost health coverage through a new state program on Jan. 5. ...more

December 11, 2008

Chief negotiators of a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs predicted Friday the United States will never again use the weapons, a critical component of American air and artillery power. ...more

May 31, 2008

President Bush acknowledged "learning as we go" in building democracy in Iraq, as he used Wednesday's commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy to counsel patience and resolve in America's wars of the 21st century. ...more

May 29, 2008

FOOTBALL Instead, NC lineman J.J. Baker inks to play football for Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. ...more

May 27, 2008

You can be reasonably assured this is one new law that will not have an elaborate signing ceremony by Charlie Crist surrounded by Cheshire cat-grinning glad-handers standing proudly behind the governor as he proclaims what a great day this is for Florida's goats. ...more

January 5, 2008

As a wall of pessimism begins to crack, where's the diplomacy? Watching Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice making repeated trips to Israel to try to broker some kind of deal between Israelis and Palestinians, while Iraq remains politically unresolved, leaves me feeling like my house is burning down and the fire department has decided to stop along the way to get two cats out of a tree. ...more

November 27, 2007

The pressure is off Kendall Dawson. At a ceremony resplendent with the crimson and white colors of her future school, the Plant City High senior made official her commitment to play softball at the University of Alabama. Dawson verbally committed in the spring but last week was the first time high school students could actually sign letters of intent. ...more

November 21, 2007